Do you watch Japanese baseball? ?

2009-01-19 1:13 pm
What is your opinion on Japanese baseball in comparison with American baseball?
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Hi, beauty. You've never heard of it? Wow, it's amazing! There are a bunch of Japanese players doing excellent job in MLB, including Ichiro, Matsuzaka, Okajima, Fukudome, Iwamura, Saito, Matsui, Kuroda, etc. Don't you know Japan won the WBC two years ago? Any way, my question is not about Japanese players in MLB. What I am asking for is your opinion and your impression about Japanese baseball. What kind of differences do you recognize between the two.

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2009-01-19 2:44 pm
✔ 最佳答案
yes I do. JPB does not have the power game like the MLB does. There seems to be more technical baseball being played. Meaning, get a base hit, steal second. hit and run to 3rd and then a bunt squeeze play for the run. Push the runner around is a common strategy seen. It must be said that even the MLB teams run use this strategy often. I see it more often in JPB. Many of the fields are in doors or have dirt in fields so that means faster ground hits, so a larger percentage of plays at first base result in the runner being safe.

Anyway you look at it, it is good high quality baseball. Too bad the lure of the MLB is draining JPB of it's stars an top talent.

Game warm-ups by the JPB teams are interesting. They run a regimented and almost military style warm-up. This is in contrast to the more relaxed but equally effective warm-ups you see in MLB.

Athlete wise, the players in the MLB are larger taller and sometimes wider around the waist line. JPB players are all slimmer but you would not see a wide waist player in JPB unless he is one of the 4 allowed foreign players allowed on the team's roster.

The biggest differences are the crowds. At JPB games there are cheering sections that bring drums trumpets and lead the stadium in cheers. The visiting team also brings their cheering nation to away games. At MLB games you can sometimes see hecklers and trash talkers and also the good natured booing of the other team. In the USA you will often see or become someone talking to the stranger next to you about the game. All in good enjoyment of the national past time.

At a JPB game, the cheering crowd gets you to join the fun. My kids and I get into the songs and cheer along, we clap and make noise with out thunder sticks along with the entire home team stadium. It sucks you cannot keep any foul balls or HRs hit into the stands. The stadium staff comes around and asks for the ball back.

Then there is the food, at a JPB stadium you have you hot dogs, hamburgers and fries. You also have ramen, onigiri and sembei.
2009-01-20 10:32 am
The game itself is not too different from MLB. I believe Japan is ranked 4th worldwide, behind Cuba, US, and Korea.
The crowd is very different from MLB. I think someone explained it in detail above so I won't repeat it here.
One thing tho, you do get to keep foul balls nowadays. That changed in the last several years.
Mmmm, buy some Shumai-bento, grab some beer, and cheer on on a nice summer evening... :)
2009-01-20 1:37 am
I actually enjoy Japanese baseball more than MLB. I watched a few games on TV when I was in Japan (Yomuiri Giants is my favorite team) and I watched a Dodgers game at the Dodgers Stadium (I fell asleep halfway and left early).

It seem that Japanese baseball is more about strategies and game plans, which makes it a bit more interesting, at least for me.
2009-01-19 9:18 pm
Wow, never hear of that. Seems like it would be interesting to watch though.


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